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A. M. SLACK.

BILL AND LETTER EILE.

Patented Apr. 27, 1 886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFR D M. SLACK, on DU 1301s, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF onnHALF TO H.LOEB, on SAME PLACE.

BlLL AND LETTER FILE.

EJPECIFECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,832, dated April2'7, 1886.

Application tiled February 18, 1886. Serial No. 192,360. (No model.)

To-aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ALFRED M. SLACK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Du Bois, in the county of Glearfield and State -of Penn- 5sylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill andLetter Files; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention,

. such as will enable others skilled in the art to IO which itappertains to make and use the same, reference beinghad to theaccompanying drawing, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon, which forms a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in bill and letter files;and it consists in the peculiar construction and adaptation of parts, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed. I

The object of this invention is to provide a bill, letter, or newspaperfile which will be durable in construction and may be cheaplymanufactured.

The invention is illustrated in the accom- 5 panying drawing by aperspective view.

In carrying out my invention I take a piece of spring-steel wire, whichmay be copper, sil ver, ornickel-plated, and file down or sharpen oneend. I then bend the wire at a suitable 3o distance from the oppositeend to form an attaching-eye, a, whereby the same may be placed over anail, hook, or other means of support. From this eye the branches of thewire are carried downwardly and outwardly,

or in a divergent form, so as to furnish a broad bearing, and theninwardly, where they are united by wrapping, as indicated at I). Fromthis connection b the branch A, having its end pointed, is carrieddownwardly and upwardly to form an elongated loop, B, the free arm G ofwhich may be curved inwardly, as shown, so as to more effectually engagethe hook. The opposite end of the wire is carried from the connection bin a horizontal positiomwhere it is bent upon itself about midway of itslength, and then bent laterally to form a hook, D, for the engagement ofthe pointed branch of the holder loop.

It will be seen that this device is made from a single piece of wire,and may be manufactured at a very small expense.

Having described this invention, what I claim is As an improved articleof manufacture, a billfile formed of a single piece of wire having theattaching-eye a, and the outwardly, downwardly, and inwardly directedbranches united by wrapping, the hook. formed from one branch extendingforwardly from the wrapped connection, and a downward loop terminatingin a pointed free branch to engage the said hook, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED M. SLACK.

Vitnesses:

GEO. A. SLACK, S. MOMANIGLE.

